Composite Vector Mesons and the Little Higgs Mechanism

Abstract

I review a technique to embed vector mesons in the chiral Lagrangian of QCD, and apply it to more general coset spaces, relevant for Little Higgs models. The implementation of heavy spin-1 fields in Little Higgs models allows for a better control over previously non calculable, ultra-violate sensitive quantities, such as the Higgs couplings. A relevant application is the study of vacuum alignment in the SU(6)/Sp(6) models.

4 pages, 2 figures, Talk given at the 12th International Conference on Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions, June 17-23, 2004, Tsukuba, Japan